Wednesday
1/7

Assignment: A0.

Course Welcome, Introduction.

Monday
1/12

Reading: Tufte excerpt
Reading: Ware excerpt
Assignment: A1 parts 1 and 2 only

Review A0 Good/Bad examples.
Introduction.

Wednesday
1/13

Assignment: A1 parts 3 and 4.

Introduction.

Monday
1/19

NO CLASS

MLK Holiday

Wednesday
1/22

Assignment: A2.

Review A2. Review Personal Story Visualizations (from your A1).

Monday
1/26

Reading: Eyes Have It
Reading: Visualization Taxonomy

Framework
Data Models and Representations
Framework Field Guide
DataTypes Identification Sheet.

Wednesday
1/28

Assignment: A3.

Perception and Visual Cognition.

Monday
2/2

Reading: Cleveland Graphical Perception

Color Use and Color Scales.
Perception and Visual Cognition.

Wednesday
2/4

Assignment: A4.

Perception and Visual Cognition.

Monday
2/9

Reading: Jeff Han TED talk MultiTouch Display 2006
Reading: Hiep Truong Portable large table top displays
Reading: Display for the Mobile Web

Displays.

Wednesday
2/11

Assignment: A5.

Displays.

Monday
2/16

Reading: RENCI Project Visualizations ( NCSU and Duke). Read and explore the RENCI visualization projects listed on these two pages... For your reading reaction, choose two visualizations and write reviews of them.

FIELD TRIP: Visit Social Computing Lab either at RENCI or Davis Library. We will meet in classroom for first half of class, then go on field trip for 2nd half of class.

Wednesday
2/18

Assignment: A6.

Reviews of your MidTerm Project Plans
Charts and Tables

Monday
2/23

Reading: Stephen's Few's Communicating Numbers. Reading Responses:
1) In Chart page on Work Wiki, critique a chart of your choice, based on the Few Reading;
2) Take Quiz on reading

Wednesday
2/24

Assignment: A7.

Multivariable Visualization Techniques.

Monday
3/2

Reading: Polaris
Reading: IBM Attribute Explorer. Note you may need to save out and use VLC media player or similar to view

Multivariable Visualization Techniques.

Wednesday
3/4

Reading: Geobrowsing: Creative Thinking and knowledge discovery using geographic visualization, Peuquet

Maps & GIS.

Monday
3/9

SPRING BREAK

Wednesday
3/11

SPRING BREAK

Monday
3/16

MidTerm Project Presentations

Wednesday
3/18

MidTerm Project Presentations

Monday
3/23

Assignment: A9.

Maps & GIS.

Wednesday
3/25

Assignment: A10.

Interaction.

Monday
3/30

Reading: Animation: Can it facilitate?, Tversky
Reading: Visual programming Watch the visualization portions of the first 35 minutes of the video. Dr H says best video of our readings!

Interaction.

Wednesday
4/1

Assignment: A11.

Graphs, Networks, Trees.

Monday
4/6

Reading: Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization:a Survey, Hermann
Visualize your social network graph in Social Network Exercise

Design a "best" social network graph interface.

Wednesday
4/8

Assignment: A12.

Visual Analytics. Use Tableau for developing visual analytic interfaces.

Monday
4/13

Reading: Perceptual Evaluation of Visualization Techniques and Systems, Ware
Reading: Shneiderman: Evaluating Novel Visualization Technques (Treemaps, ConeTrees, Hyperbolic Trees)

Visual Analytics. Use Tableau for developing visual analytic interfaces.

Wednesday
4/15

Assignment: A13.

Evaluation. Design Practice (Treemaps vs Cone Trees vs Hyperbolic Browsers).

Monday
4/20

Reading: The Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation, Plaisant
Reading: An Empirical Comparison of Three Commercial Information Visualization Systems, Kobsa

Evaluation. Evaluation Practice.

Wednesday
4/22

Initial Final Project Presentations, Class Wrap-Up, Class Evaluations

Friday
5/1 10:15am-3pm, with 1/2 hour lunch break around noonm

Remaining Final Project Presentations